Once
Around:Surveys show that “more
people than ever oppose the NSA practices Edward Snowden revealed.
Why, should he spend his life in prison?” Simple:
Because more people than ever oppose those NSA practices.

Better
Question: Why
are there so many young
refugees streaming into the US from Honduras, Guatemala and El
Salvador and nearly
none from Nicaragua? And why are these refugees not called refugees?
Ah, responsibility. Ours.

The
Enemy: The US
government doesn't trust at least 1.5 million of us. Thinks we're
terrorists or likely to soon become such. That's why we're in the
Terrorist Screening Database. Or might be, who knows?

Brier
Patch: Faced
with the twin problems of deteriorating highway infrastructure and
Republican refusal to pay for fixing things, Obama is now urging
states to enter into “private-public' solutions. For which read
toll roads and bridges and privatization, privatization,
privatization. In other words, a GOP victory. But not for the
citizenry – just ask a Chicagoan about
parking. Terminology:
It's not called 'an offensive' for nothing.

Holy,
Holy, Holy: In
case you haven't noticed, professional sports have become mass
religious orgies
celebrating the
homeland and its warriors. Just
In: Pew
pollsters find
that Republicans are the biggest haters, but Americans in general and
Christians in particular are downright intolerant of (and afraid of)
religious views and practices different from their own. In the US,
“hatred between religions, distrust and downright anger are the
everyday norm...” In case you've been out of the room and didn't
already know. Don't
Ask, Don't Tell:
“Giant rubber duck
lost in China flood.”

4 comments:

one can reasonably hypothesize that the actual perpetrators are not identified beyond reasonable doubt - see http://consortiumnews.com/2014/07/20/what-did-us-spy-satellites-see-in-ukraine/

with regard to intentionality, some have hypothesized, perhaps not reasonably, that since the kiev regime benefits from the perception that the plane was shot down by the rebels, arguably with assistance from moscow, that the kiev regime had a motive to do it with the intention of assigning blame to their enemies - similar things have happened in the not-so-distant past

re Holy, Holy, Holy - see my comments here from two years agohttp://ckm3.blogspot.com/2012/05/sar-12149.html

And we pray to our LordWho we know is AmericanHe reigns from on highHe speaks to us through middlemenAnd he shepherds his flockWe sing out and we praise His nameHe supports us in warHe presides over football gamesAnd the right will prevailAll our troubles shall be resolvedWe have faith in the LordUnless there's money or sex involved

Frail grasp on the big pictureNobody's calling them for roughing up the pitcher (?)It's a frail grasp on the big pictureHeaven help us

It shows 2 Ukrainian military fighters tailed MH17, an unidentified third aircraft climbed rapidly from low level towards MH 17,turn then descended rapidly. A short time afterwards MH17 disappeared from the radar. The satellite imagery showsmultiple Ukrainian Buk batteries in the area, not the single Buk launcher without radar that the militias are supposed tohave had. Ukraine denied any of its aircraft were tailing MH17. It has also confiscated air traffic records held at Kiev Borispol.

Russia is also aware that the US will have satellite imagery and radar data of its own. It has challenged the US to publish it.

Mike Whitney made an prescient prediction in an article about US war for resource control on 9 July 2014. He stated thatwe should expect another false flag incident on a much larger scale than the fire in Odessa. Washington isgoing to have to do something really big and make it look like it was Moscow's doing.

Our Motto

Keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.